CPE344 Plant Safety and Risk Management Syllabus:
CPE344 Plant Safety and Risk Management Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES
The course is aimed to
To understand the need of safety in industries.
To understand the safety regulations.
To identify the hazards in the process plants.
To Know about safety audit
To understand the risk analysis techniques.
UNIT I NEED FOR SAFETY IN INDUSTRIES
Importance & objectives of safety- Safety Programmes – components and realization; Potentialhazards – extreme operating conditions, toxic chemicals; safe handling
UNIT II PLANT SAFETY AND SAFETY REGULATION
Implementation of safety procedures – periodic inspection and replacement; Accidents – identification and prevention; Criteria for setting & layout of chemical plant, Factories Act and Safety Regulations.
UNIT III PLANT HAZARDS & RISK ANALYSIS
Fire hazards- Chemical hazards, Toxic hazards, Explosion hazards, Electrical hazards, Mechanical hazards, Radiation hazards, Noise hazards-Overall risk analysis–emergency planning on site & off site emergency planning, risk management ISO 14000, EMS models case studies. Quantitative risk assessment – rapid and comprehensive risk analysis; Risk due to Radiation, explosion due to over pressure, jet fire-fire ball.
UNIT IV SAFETY AUDIT
Objective of safety audit- Hazard identification safety audits, checklist, what if analysis, vulnerability models event tree analysis fault tree analysis, Hazan past accident analysis Fixborough-Mexico-Madras-Vizag Bopal analysis
UNIT V RISK ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
Hazard & Operability (HAZOP) studies- Hazard Analysis (HAZAN)-Fault Tree Analysis Consequence Analysis.
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
On completion of the course students are expected to
CO1: Understand the importance of safety and its objectives.
CO2: Understand the implementation of safety and identification and prevention of Accidents.
CO3: Know about the types of hazards, emergency plan and ISO standards for safety studies.
CO4: Do the safety audit in plants.
CO5: Do the risk analysis in industries using the various techniques.
TEXT BOOKS
1. Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, Daniel A. Crowl, J.F. Louvar, Prantice Hall, NJ, 1990.
2. Fawatt, H.H. and Wood, W.S., “Safety and Accident Prevention in Chemical Operation“, Wiley Interscience, 1965.
3. Marcel, V.C., Major Chemical Hazard- Ellis Harwood Ltd., Chi Chester, UK, 1987. 4. Hyatt, N., Guidelines for process hazards analysis, hazards identification & risk analysis, Dyadem Press, 2004
REFERENCES
1. Handley, W., “Industrial Safety Hand Book “, 2nd Edn., McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969.
2. Heinrich, H.W. Dan Peterson, P.E. and Rood, N., “ Industrial Accident Prevention“, McGrawHill Book Co., 1980.
3. Taylor, J.R.,